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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1242235

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Title:Alyawarr Women's Awely songs recorded at Ngkwelay, NT
SP-080922Ngkwelay
Classical Song Traditions of Contemporary Western Arnhem Land in Their Multilingual Context
Contributor (recorder):Carew, Margaret
Woods, Gail
Contributor (singer):Kemarr, Kiji
Kemarr, Mary
Coverage:Australia
Date:2008-09-22
Description:Alyawarr Women's awely songs from Ntarrengeny. Recorded during a Batchelor Institute Own Language course workshop by Gail Woods and Margaret Carew
The classical song traditions of Western Arnhem Land are amongst the foremost examples of verbal art in the nine endangered languages of the region, but few people are now competent to perform or comment on them. Typically performed in multi-lingual social contexts, song texts demonstrate unusual linguistic features such as mixtures of languages and a high proportion of esoteric and intimate vocabulary. We will collect, transcribe, translate and analyse song texts and discussions about songs by contemporary performers, and where relevant repatriate and document archival recordings, making our research results available to communities via a network of local digital repositories.
Public women's ceremonial display songs. Performed with dancing and painting-up. These songs can also be performed for healing purposes. For this purpose the songs are sung in private. IN the Central and Eastern Arrernte region awelye is more often associated with healing than a public display genre. See arrartenh-artenhe for this.
Has this person signed the consent form? Yes
Skin Name: Kemarre, Ampetyane
Margaret works for Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education and has assisted on the Songs Project in her capacity as Batchelor Lecturer.
Has this person signed the consent form? No
Skin Name: Unspecified
Gail is linguist working on Akarre (North-Eastern Arrernte)
Lives at Arnkawenyerr, Utopia
Recorded by: Woods, Gail Recording device used: Edirol R09
Format:audio/x-wav
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1242235
Rausing MDP0139
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1242235%23
Publisher:Linda Barwick
University of Sydney
Subject:Singing
Awelye
Alyawarr language
Subject (ISO639):aly
Type:Audio

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Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1242235
DateStamp:  2018-10-19
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Citation: Kemarr, Kiji (singer); Carew, Margaret (recorder); Woods, Gail (recorder); Kemarr, Mary (singer). 2008-09-22. Linda Barwick.
Terms: area_Pacific country_AU iso639_aly

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Country: Australia
Area: Pacific


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